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100 1 $aMark, Joan T.,$d1937-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80129773
245 14 $aThe king of the world in the land of the Pygmies /$cJoan Mark.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9504
300 $axvi, 276 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-264) and index.
520 $aJoan Mark offers here an interpretative biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953), the U.S. anthropologist who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in present-day Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community.
520 8 $aPutnam modeled his camp on the "dude ranches" of the American West and took in paying guests while running a medical clinic and occasionally offering legal aid to the local people. He assumed the role of intermediary between them and the outsiders who came to Camp Putnam, including Colin M. Turnbull, author of the best-selling The Forest People. Although half a world away from New England, Putnam continued to struggle with the pressure of family expectation.
520 8 $aMark describes his relation to his family as well as his relationships with the African and the American women Putnam took as wives. Toward the end of his extraordinary life, frustrated and driven half-mad by a virulent lung disease, Putnam became tyrannical; he tried to destroy the world he had created for himself on the Epulu River.
520 8 $aThe author places Putnam within the context of three different anthropological traditions and examines his contribution, as the world's leading expert on pygmies, to future studies of the area.
600 10 $aPutnam, Patrick Tracy Lowell,$d1903 or 1904-1953.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94035438
650 0 $aAnthropologists$zCongo (Democratic Republic)$vBiography.
650 0 $aAnthropologists$zMassachusetts$vBiography.
650 0 $aMbuti (African people)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011423
651 0 $aIturi Forest (Congo)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001621
852 00 $boff,glx$hGN21.P88$iM37 1995